Now you’re mine
People run
out of the clue screaming as Diamondback’s men are firing everywhere. Shades
enters and isn’t too happy to find them shooting up the club. Diamondback tells
them to shoot misty, so Luke carries her into the kitchen. Then moves various
kitchen stuff to block the door. Unfortunately, Claire is captured which gives
Dimaondback the bright idea of using hostages or something and impersonating
Luke Cage again. I’m siding with Shades on this one, this is, how does one put
it in the Marvel universe….
Luke’s
already surmised that they’ve got entrances barred, fortunately Luke knew a few
of the places secrets from having worked there. Luke fortunately gets her below
ground as Diamondback blows the doors down. The police have a team outside,
with Ridley heading up the team and wanting contact with Misty. ESU has arrived
and is going to enter but Ridley shuts them down since they don’t know what the
hostages want.
Shades and
the crew enter the kitchen, but find nothing. Diamondback convinces Shades
that all is in hand. Damon Boone calls the police and tells them not to enter
as ‘Luke Cage’ is threatening to kill. Misty finds her cell phone but it’s too
broken to get a message. She’s scared, her bleeding is quite severe, even with
what Luke Cage could do to patch her up, and she doesn’t want to die like
Scarfe
Boone is
forced to read Diamondback’s bible, which has been highlighted and noted on.
Claire speaks to Candace, the girl who testified against Luke, and helps
reassure her about her leg. She confesses to Claire that she gave false
testimony. She tells Claire where Luke might be and gets her to fake passing
out, which she does surprisingly easily. She knocks her escort down the stairs
and proceeds to them.
Misty
finally gets her head on straight and promises Luke help unfortunately Tower is
here to pass on news: Mariah is selling the idea of bullsh*t bullets to the
Mayor. Boone calls again with his demands, a chopper on the roof, and that’s
it… shouldn’t that be suspect? Anyway, despite reservations from both Tower and
Ridley, they’re gonna use the bullsh*t bullets. Boone also tells them that half
the hostages are to be released, and 4 come out.
Claire makes
it to Misty, and we get a hint about her losing her arm. I think it’s supposed
to be a tease but given what happens later, I prefer to call it foreshadowing.
OK, Diamondback’s wax poetry about the bible and his mother and his dumb
motivation of petty jealousy is boring. You can’t make me feel sorry for him
now.
The hostage
reports don’t line up with what the police think, which makes the need to find
and get Misty out alive all the more important. With the report of the knocked
out guard finally reaching Shades’ ears, he knows both Claire and Candace now
have die or things will fall apart.
Bored of
waiting, Diamondback uses the intercom to talk, a hostage dies every 10 minutes
until Luke surrenders himself, starting, conveniently for Mariah, with Damon
Boone. Claire ties Misty's vein, but in the process cutting off blood to her arm, without
proper medical assistance she’s gonna lose the arm. OK, now we’re getting to
the meat of Diamondback’s origin. Carl and him had been joyriding or something
but got caught. Carl went to the marines, Willis to juvie, but he was jumped
and had to kill in self-defence, but this got him sent away to do hard time.
Although
with all of this I’m surprised the Vendetta isn’t against Luke’s father. Luke
had no control over any of this. Luke easily overpowers the guards but
Diamondback is testing out his stupid gloves again and kills Boone. He’s
dropped outside and this convinces Ridley to let the ESU storm the building.
After washing his hands from the blood, Shades notices the floor creaking and
finds the hideaway, confronting Misty with a gun. Between her and Claire they
manage to overpower him.
The ESU arm
themselves up with bullsh*t bullets. Luke cuts the power, and manages to free
all remaining hostages except Candice, who’s now being held over a ledge at
gunpoint. The ESU storm the buildings as Candace is released and Luke catches
her, with no other option he surrenders to the cops.
Misty
proclaims Luke’s innocence and whilst Ridley does trust her, she feels
verification is necessary, especially with the other crimes Luke is accused of.
Claire, in a very gratifying moment, stomps on Shades’ shades as he’s also
arrested along with all the goons Luke knocked out. Diamondback escapes thanks
to Zip knowing Cottonmouth’s escape plans.
It’s a
decent episode, showing an interesting light on Diamondback for a change.
Rating
7.5/10
Soliloquy of Chaos
Misty hints
that Luke escape else he WILL take the fall, ok she does it subtlety, but not
that subtly. And there’s no cop in the back with him because the police are
f*cking morons. Anyway, the bullsh*t bullets do rampant property damage and
Luke does the same. He’s cornered by one officer but he’s a little less willing
to make the shot, believing Luke Cage might be innocent of everything.
Diamondback
tells Zip he’s releasing Shades, meanwhile Domingo is hearing from his
associates that Diamondback is unstable and needs to die, Domingo agrees. Misty
wants to be doing something but Ridley isn’t having it. Mariah looks at the
wreck that was Harlem’s paradise, she’s not happy that Diamondback wrecked it.
Oh look,
Stan Lee Cameo. Anyway, Luke stops a robbery and gets a new hoodie that doesn’t
have bullet holes in it. Candace calls Misty, offering to talk. They meet on
the streets and she confesses what she knows, she agrees to testify if she can
be kept safe, she is clearly terrified of Mariah, even more so than
Cottonmouth. Misty agrees to take her to soledads, but unfortunately it looks
like she was being watched.
There’s a
radio broadcast about the effect Luke Cage is having, and how the perception of
his innocence is spreading. Apparently, he’s rapping as well. Oh look, the shop
is now selling hoodies with bullet-holes in them to show solidarity with Cage. After
the cops try and raid Pops, but don’t find Luke, Luke conveniently arrives.
Shades is
bailed out but he’s a little unsure as to why. He’s brought into an elevator
where Zip attempts to strangle him. But he manages to steal a gun, and kill the
other two assailants, leaving only Zip, who he kills shortly thereafter after
having worked out that Diamandback is plotting to kill him. He finds a pair of
sunglasses conveniently in Zip’s pocket.
Mariah knows
that Candice can’t be trusted, she gets a call from Diamondback, and she also
gets a visit from him, where she receives a large amount of money, on the
condition that she side with him. Luke interrogates Turk to find out
Diamondback’s hideout. Domingo and crew are ready to stage their little hostile
takeover, a place that looks conveniently like Domingo’s hideouts. A shootout
of Diamondback vs literally everyone begins and Diamondback somehow survives
it. OK, Diamondback does have 2 or 3 lackies left.
Mariah gets
a visit from Shades, giving her the last bit of evidence against her. Shades
and Mariah agree to try and enlist Luke Cage, Shades has some files that can
clear Carl Lucas’ name and give him his life back. Presumably much the like
Mariah and the bottle, he wanted this to leverage against Diamondback if sh*t
hit the fan.
Luke arrives
at the warehouse, finding all of Domingo’s men dead and Domingo stabbed through
the leg, Luke sees the entire house is ridged to blow and he gets Domingo out
just in time. He asks what Diamondback used to what he did but Domingo doesn’t
know, and doesn’t think Luke can stop him, he dies.
Luke and
Misty talk briefly as Mariah and Shades enter Pops to parley with Luke cage, he
agrees but then Misty reveals he’d followed them and the standoff ends when a
grenade throws them off and Diamondback appears and oh my god, what the f*ck is
wearing hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
This episode
is a lot of setup with very little pay off to any of it. Still, as set up goes,
it’s pretty interesting
Rating 7/10
You Know my Steez
Only good
things can come with this title
We open
‘back in the day’ with Stryker teaching Luke how to box. Would you believe
Stryker could behave like a rational, even compassionate human being? But of
course one trip to prison later and he’s mugging like a f*cking idiot.
Back in the
fight and erm what can I say about Diamondback
I think that
just about covers it, apparently it’s Hammer tech! Justin Hammer is offended by
the tech you’ve just described as his. And he’s not a real person! Roll credits
let’s get this depressing ending over with.
Pops gets
smashed up a lot as Misty tries to clear the crowd, unfortunately Misty lost
her phone in the previous episode. Mariah left the evidence behind and knows
that Misty’s gonna arrest her but has her assistant make a call for her, she
has another play. Also, Shades has the
phone.
You get why
Diamondback isn’t that threatening, even with the stupid looking suit Luke
manages to toss him into the ceiling. Also, hi Claire, nice to remind me you’re
in this episode. Don’t forget that Candace is there, that’ll be important soon.
The Police
arrive as Luke is tossed out a window, Diamondback comes out and…
No, I’m not
gonna stop. He hands a couple of hits but it doesn’t really effect anything and
he can see the whirring tech on Diamondback’s back. Mariah does a newscast and
mentions Luke’s identity as Carl Lucas and how he escaped Seagate. More
fighting, more boxing, more inaction from the police, more of me laughing
because Diamondback looks f*cking stupid. Thanks to some chanting he wins,
knocking Diamondback out, this is just stupid. Misty gets him out of trouble
with the police, for now, but needs to bring him in to make a statement
Candace
receives a text message, saying Misty wants to meet Candace, but here we go.
Mariah does believe she’s going down. And I won’t lie, we get a good speech
from Luke of Harlem and the lesson’s he learned, along with a few bits of
evidence that he didn’t commit the murders. I think that’s one of things I like
about Luke Cage. Luke has always been too reluctant but we do see the impact he
has on people in a way we never did with Jessica Jones or Daredevil.
Mariah is
talking in her little cell, making a little story up that places the blame for
Cottonmouth’s murder on Diamondback but Misty comes in, showing the audio
record of Candace’s interview and her deductions based on the crime scene.
Unfortunately, that audio wouldn’t hold up in court, Candace would still need
to testify or Mariah will walk, but she’s told that Candace is dead. Shades
killed her after luring her out with Misty’s phone.
Misty lashes
out at Mariah, but I don’t think she knew about this one. Without the witness,
Mariah is freed. It’s soon pointed out to Misty that if Candace had been in proper
protective custody she wouldn’t have been murdered.
Luke and
Claire are eating some noodles in the police station but they see Mariah
leaving. Luke asks about the file but she pretends not to know what he’s
talking about. Misty tells them what happened. There is also one other way
Candace would still be alive, telling her she’d not contact by text, only by
calls where she’d recognise her voice. It would’ve been tough for Shades to get
around that.
And 2
Marshalls arrive to arrest Carl Lucas for his escape from Seagate, Claire
promises to get him a lawyer who knows what he’s doing after they suck face for
a bit. Funny enough, she’s not talking about Matt Murdock. Shades picks up
Mariah and gives her Cottonmouth’s gun
Harlem’s
Paradise reopens, Misty visits Candace’s body, Clair picks up a number for
self-defence lessons with one Colleen Wing. We’ll get to her soon. Fish finds
the files that prove Lucas’ innocence. Mariah redecorates her office and kisses
Shades? What? Misty arrives at the club, ready to resume her investigation.
Diamondback is in an astonishingly poorly guarded hospital as Luke is escorted
to prison.
You know
what, this episode has a rubbish finale to Diamondback but I don’t mind how it
concludes. Sure Luke’s arrest and Mariah walking free are depressing, but it’s
not all bad. Luke’s more popular than ever, they have the file to prove Carl’s
innocence so Luke won’t be in jail for that long, Claire has a more emboldened
sense of purpose. Misty’s not done stalking Mariah by a long shot and as for
Candace… sad but so was Chico’s death, I can overlook it. At least Mariah did
exonerate Luke of Cottonmouth’s murder
Rating
6.5/10
And with
Luke Cage done it’s time to move onto Iron Fist and… oh boy, this is gonna hurt
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